HEAVEN & HELL

By Nora Amrani
September, 1998

Most religions preach about heaven and hell, and how those who
either do or do not believe in one thing or another will inevitably
end up in one of these two places. What are hell and heaven? Are
they real? Where are they? And who gets to go where?

Christianized Hell is portrayed as such a real and frightening place filled
with monsters and Satan, where one is punished for their
sins and suffers eternally. There is no way out. Oh, you
know the pictures that have been painted by Dali and other
artists depicting the burning pit where those not worthy
of being recognized or loved by God are tossed, abandoned
and tortured. Damned for eternity.

Heaven, on the other hand, is supposed to be eternal bliss.
And only the very worthy end up in Heaven. With the stringent
demands made on humans to be everything but human, (never
mind seeing human as divine) while being constantly reminded that
they are sinful and unworthy of heaven, heaven must be very
under-populated. In fact, with all those rules to be met, I can't
imagine one person being successfully led through those pearly
gates! Can you? (No, not even Mother Theresa - she believed that
she was less than divine, herself.)

FUN WITH ETYMOLOGY

Hell and heaven are very dramatically presented, aren't they?
But do we even know what these words mean? Could it be we have
all been fed non-sequiturs for centuries to the point where we no longer
remember what these words really mean, therefore we live in constant
confusion (like the Tower of Babel) because we don't properly use
our language? Wow - just imagine what that does to our communcations
on all levels with one another!

Hell: Prepare yourselves for a possible shock: The word 'hel' means 'light.'
It also means 'earth.' Check your Germanic dictionaries if you don't
believe me. In fact, check many languages and find the meaning of
the word 'hell.' Some will say it means 'cover.' If hell is such a negative
place, then why do we refer to the sun, who gives us
life, warmth and nurtures us, as 'helios?" Perhaps the thought of diving
into the sun would be hell, itself. Maybe that's how it all originated?
But, realistically, you wouldn't even make it that close without first
disintegrating. Ah, but then you'd become pure energy, pure light,
just like the sun, itself! Your real essence, in other words. Why,
we even used to worship* gods representing the sun's
energy - Ra, ApolIo, for example. So, why would it be something to be
feared and avoided, at all costs?

A 'demon in hell' can also be called a 'genius in the light.' Demon, or daemon,
has conflicting meanings. It can mean our inner genius, divinity or genie.
It is a word sharing the same root thing as 'diamond!'
Some dictionaries say demons are inferior divinity
or evil spirits. How can they be both? Both divine, genius and evil? Think
about it. Do they not cancel one another out? Or, can we put all under one
divine umbrella? What definitions have you been taught?

The horns on the devil are also used to depict great divine light emanating through
the individual. Same thing was shown with Hathor, Moses, White Buffalo Woman.
It is a positive symbol of higher consciousness and knowledge, not evil.

Devil comes from the Sanskrit world meaning 'deva,' which relates to the good angels
of the Hindu pantheon. Were you taught that Satan means adversary or plotter?
'Adverse' meaning 'to turn towards?' After Zoroaster and the Persians
conquered Hindu territory the conquerers miraculously transformed the
Hindu gods into devils! So, the Hindu devas became the Persians devils.

If we look at the pattern of religious manipulation through language, the word
"daemon" was changed into having a evil implication. "It was just more Christian
propaganda used to brainwash the followers of the Greek and Roman religions
into rejecting their old gods in favor of the newly created Christian character,"
as one scholar explains. This old ploy cunningly used good timing to coincide with
the burning of millions of books; books which had they not been burned would have
allowed people to see the truth of how they were being lied to. And the word
'evil' actually comes from the same root as the word 'apple,' which is 'upfel.'
Who decided that apples were evil? The apple itself isn't evil.

Rabbi Ahron Lopiansky explains that Judaism talks of "Satan/devil," but it sees Satan as "...an agent
of God, testing the sincerity of man's deeds, the strength of his convictions, and the stamina of his
moral fiber. Although this so-called devil seems to entice man to do wrong, he is not inherently
an evil being. Rather, he is conducting a "sting" operation; overtly enticing to bad, but in reality
working for God. A cursory reading of the beginning of Job conveys that message: God sends
out Satan to test Job's righteousness. Just as a dentist or doctor tests the firmness of a bone
or flesh by probing it, just as the army tests the integrity and trustworthiness of its intelligence
agents by tempting them, so too does God test man. A test reveals the inner worthiness of a
person's deeds, demonstrating what they are really made of."

Heaven: Could this word come from 'heave' - meaning to toss, lift or
raise? Those lofty ideas. No doubt it does. And what about 'heavy,' meaning
'weighty.' This can get to be lots of fun, eh? 'Ven' means 'air.' 'Ven' can also be
'van,' which means 'sail,' 'wing,' 'basket,' and it can be a shovel used in testing
ore; and of course, it now means a type of large vehicle
capable of transporting many people. The more accurate root of "heaven" comes from "haven."
The word "heaven" also has its roots in Hebrew in "ha'shamayim," which means
"the skies," " high places." Maybe you can come up with some other meanings for it.
See the conflicts over and over in modern language?

Worship...another interesting word. "War" means literally "war," or "where,"
and "ship" meaning a "state" or "condition." The word religion is interesting, too.
"Re" means "back," or "again," or even "in reference to." "Legion" is "a body of
infantry in the ancient Roman army"; or "vast host." Re-legion. Armies of God
in a war ship? Is religion about war? Or hosts of God?

Now that the brief etymology portion is over, let's get into the other areas of
what these words have come to mean to a great many people in the religious
and social sense. In fact, they have come to dictate and control much
of our beliefs and lives.

AN ANCIENT STORY OF THE FALLEN ANGELS

The ideas of Satan and fallen angels are our own planetary collective consciousness'
idea of viewing things negatively. One explanation is that it represents the fall of ourselves
into this dimension of materiality and polarity, forgetting our divine selves and our
spirituality. Satan is backwards for "natas" - which later became
"nahash" the serpent. So, what everyone THOUGHT was evil, is actually the opposite. That term
is related to the Sirian-Anunnaki being, Enki, in the following:

The archetypal, mythological concept of fallen angels originated approximately 450,000 years
ago when the last of the extraterrestrial beings from a satellite planet named Nibiru, known on
Earth as the Anunnaki, (a group of Lyran off-shoots who stemmed from one of their more infamous
members, Anu, Enki, Enlil, Inanna, etc.), had their final expedition to Earth and, in a sense, left one
group "stranded" here. Since the Anunnaki were known as "the gods," and these "gods" came from
the heavens and were seen as being angels because of their amazing abilities and longevity. There were conficts
between the Anunnaki themselves. Nefilim, or "those who came down," is another way of talking about this group
of the Anunnaki. Some of the Anunnaki wanted humans to see them as God and did not honor free will.
For this they were punished and expelled from certain galactic federations. This is where the idea of the fallen angels
originally came from and various accounts of it are found in the Bahgavad Gita, the bibles and other
cultural origin stories.

Enki was known as the serpent of wisdom, healing and life who had a great hand in creation, the waters
of life (sperm, DNA, etc.) i.e., the Garden of Eden. Enki was frequently humanity's supporter.
Biblical writers called the healing serpent Nehushtan. The Hebrew word for serpent is "nahash."
The root of the word are the Hebrew letters Nun, Het and Shin, which means "to guess." This was
translated into other languages as "satan," which some say mean "enemy," or "adversary."

Enki's identity, as Lord of Earth or In Earth (EN.KI), and EA (whose house is water) is reflected in other
names, as well: Adonai, Aton, Aten, Adom, Adam, Amen. (Linguistic paleontology is a marvelous
and vast area for proving these connections.) The name EARTH also comes from EA/Enki.
Actually, the name "human" can be traced to Enki (a.k.a. EA) and his half-sister and wife,
the chief geneticist Ninti (the mother goddess of all life). HU is a transliteration of the ancient
Sumerian EA (Grimms' law of interchangeable letters and sounds). HU was also Horus, by the way.
So a human is an EAman.

In India, the "nagas" were the serpent gods/goddesses. In the Americas there was
Quetzlcoatl (Enki/Thoth). The entire world has worshipped the serpent for its wisdom, but ironically,
it was not really about snakes at all - unless you feel you have to "guess" what a snake is
up to! Why was the snake chosen? For its cleverness, ability to survive in the harshest of
environments, and again, its shape resembling the flow of energy up the spine - to the
crown chakra, and the third eye. And perhaps because it naturally instilled a bit of caution or awe in people.
Was Enki really a snake? No, not literally.

THE REALITY

Both heaven and hell are places created with those of like mind
and emotions - thoughts and feelings so intense that it creates a
vortex of bioelectomagnetic energy so concentrated that it densifies
and materializes. This material form can be ectoplasmic or physical.
It takes on the form of the creator's beliefs. This form resonates
with like energies, drawing them to one another. (Like attracts like.)
This, then, creates a larger vortex of the same energy. And it keeps
growing and building and desiring it's life to be continually fed. This,
then, becomes a real gathering place.

Yes, heaven does exist. But it is a very complex dimension with many
options. Many people experience it with the smell of flowers, with
music, and always with lots of love.
There is a gathering place for souls getting ready to make their transition
from their physical form into spirit, and for those who have just crossed over.
There are healing rooms. There are educational rooms. It offers freedom of choice
to wherever your soul wants to learn and you plan your next move there.

Hell actually is a dimension of energy that is created by self-judgement
and condemnation, ergo punishment. Its essence is fear and forgetfulness of love
and light. It's energy contains fear, anger, powerlessness, (including guilt,
martyrdom, pain, sadness), and it is a very difficult
place from which to escape because it builds on itself. It is a very sad and dark place
and even though there are many souls there, it feels so lonely. Ironically, the fear of
being in what people believe to be hell may actually create that kind of hell, itself.

In the case of "hell," the only way these energies can be nourished is by having
more of the same energy filling it up, adding more fuel to the fire. In order to stay
alive it seeks out its food in many ways. Finding a weakness, such as addiction,
within a person to attach itself to is one way. Attaching to the little bit of belief
in that individual it can use for its own survival. And it can also be utilized
by people performing certain rituals to get a life force that can be manipulated
and directed. You see, the life force, the energy, never dies. It changes form,
and its form can be intentionally changed. These energies will seek out others
and build on itself unless we become conscious of them and choose to release
them through other avenues. There are ways out of hell, but it often
requires help from the other dimensions helping a soul remember love and personal
empowerment, choice, freedom.

Be it heaven or hell, we create our reality through our experiences, our thoughts,
beliefs, imagination, words, and our desire, and will. One way we can become conscious
of how and what we create is through meditation, or going within and contacting
the God within ourselves. We always have the choice whether to create our own
heaven or hell wherever we are. And that creation begins nowhere else except from
within ourselves.